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The Clean Energy Economy: New York

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PRESS RELEASE: New York State Clean Energy Economy Has Driven Jobs, But Needs Policy Boost – Pew Charitable Trusts, June 10, 2009

New York has a large piece of America's clean energy economy. Although all jobs in the state, including those in the clean energy economy, dropped between 1998 and 2007, New York ranks fifth in the number of jobs in the clean energy economy nationwide in 2007 and second in clean technology patents. Additionally, the Empire State attracted nearly $210 million in clean technology venture capital in the past three years. More than half of those funds have been invested in the category of Clean Energy. More clean energy generation will soon come from wind: In October 2008, the New York Public Service Commission approved a deal that will double the state's wind energy capacity.

 

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